There has been a lot of talk lately that Hillary already has the nomination for President of the United States of America; I question that?
It appears to me that the Democratic Convention is for the explicit purpose of determining who the candidate will be, and the Convention is official and primary elections are not.
Every Presidential election year, the highlight of the convention, is when the vote is taken by the delegates to determine the candidate and though some delegates are “pledged” they are not necessary bound by law to vote for a particular candidate.
In my study of American government, I have been appalled at what baloney that politicians have put into voters’ minds, regarding primary elections, to totally negate the original purpose of primary elections.
However, if I remember right, it is the votes of the delegates at the Presidential year political pary’s national convention that determines the candidate; and the candidate must have a majority. And in the past, if no candidate has a majority, a so called “Dark Horse” is sometimes named the candidate.
Realizing that Hillary has been the presumed 2016 Presidential candidate since 2008, when Democrat delegates chose President Obama instead, and the fact that Hillary has been leading in delegates chosen by voters today, but if a liberal progressive candidate became very popular, or another candidate had a much better chance of winning, and there was no candidate with a majority for whatever reason in the convention’s first ballot, the delegates could for some reason, pick a third unknown candidate (Dark Horse), like a Sen. Liz Warren, or Diane Feinstein, or Nancy Pelosi. The Democratic convention could get “messy”.
Personally, anything could happen at the convention or before the convention to change what appears to be the obvious. So I question anyone who says the candidate is chosen before the vote by delegates at the convention.
Call it a quirk of fate, a miracle, or a stroke of luck, but anything can happen between now and the Democratic Party Convention or before inauguration day in 2017; and then the Electors of the Presidential Electoral College will cast their vote and the final determination of who will be President will be official.
And I am amazed that the Clinton camp is asking Bernie Sanders to concede the nomination now and tell Americans that Hillary is a better choice than his self or anyone else in America to be President of the United States of America.
It is not a martyr that is born every day, it is a sucker that is born every day; so who do you trust?